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Celebrated filmmaker talks about the role of humans in the movie "Avatar."

More conversations: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200912/20091217.html

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  • WarVideo- As long as you are thanking European colnization for civilizing indigenous cultures, you are an oppressor to those same cultures today. Your benefitting from unjust privelige and entitlement, going along with status quo, while the indigenous cultures are STILL oppressed because 'entitlement' says that your life is better... The movie was making a point that what YOU see as 'barbarism' was really the prevailing philosophy of how the Na'vi people lived - community sustainability.

  • I enjoyed the movie, not thinking of anything political. But, the world has been in a flux of change since the beginning. How do we know who the indegenous peoples of any area are? People have roamed since the beginning of time, displacing present inhabitants.

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  • "Avatar is entertaining though hardly a deep intellectual exercise."

    It's a movie, get over it people.

  • see white people like this make me realize some of the tamahu do have souls, not all, not even a fraction, but some do. Some can see past the bs

  • white people or eupopean are not the ONLY people to do this to other people this has been done my many other race look at the history of people u will see if one clan needed more room they take it over and force other clan to join them or just die

  • @taria4eva

    they should not bother you.

  • Would you say that to their face? Do you have any indigenous heritage?

  • I think you should move to P N Guinea and stay

    there ! Capishe ?

  • i guess some white people will make it to heaven/zion

  • My exact thoughts. I love his mindset of this whole topic. They went around colonizing and conquering everything that wasn't a threat to them all for resources and greed. They forced other cultures to follow their demonic culture and if they don't abide, they use force to eradicate 90% of the population. This movie reminds of of what they did to the Native Americans.

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